Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busy, dapper Constantine Oumansky, the Soviet Union's Ambassador Extraordinary and Envoy Plenipotentiary to Mexico, last week delivered the plainest statement made since Moscow on the U.S.S.R.'s plans for Poland. Essence of his statement: the U.S.S.R.'s "frontier with Poland" lies west of the Polish territory taken by the Russians in 1939, and that territory is still part of Soviet Russia...
...replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into little, vague Alfred Duff Cooper's place as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Duff Cooper became envoy to the French in tempestuous Algiers...
...issues then rested, while Italy stewed. There were reports of comings & goings between the Quirinal and the Vatican, where the U.S. had Harold Tittmann, a foreign service veteran, and Britain had Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Leeds. Papal Envoy Enrico Galeazzi showed up in Lisbon, said he was bound for the U.S. to buy supplies for the Vatican. Financier Giovanni Fummi registered at London's Claridge's; presumably he was executing a mission for the Vatican...
...Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has relieved Assistant People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs Comrade Litvinoff of his post as Ambassador and Envoy Plenipotentiary of the U.S.S.R. in the United States. Comrade Andrei Gromyko has been appointed Ambassador and Envoy Plenipotentiary of the U.S.S.R. in the United States." Ever since the Soviet revolution Maxim Litvinoff has been the stoutest Russian advocate of close friendship and collaboration with Britain and the U.S. And the significance of Litvinoff's removal was not isolated: only last month Ivan Maisky, warm admirer of the British...
Under the wings of a U.S. Army transport Iran's high, hot plateau flowed past. In the wasteland below Special Passenger Francis Joseph Spellman, Archbishop of New York, Roman Catholic Military Vicar and unofficial envoy of the Vatican, lay tumbled the ruins of palaces built by ancient Persian conquerors; across it snaked a railway and motor road pulsing with Lend-Lease for Russia...